The Leahy brothers went into the heart of Papua New Guinea for one reason, and for one reason only, for selfish gain. They went in for gold. They did not care about the people, they just went in for selfish reasons. The native people did not know what to think of these odd looking people. They thought that they were spirits come back from the dead. They believed that when people came back from the dead they turned white. They thought that the Leahy brothers and those with them were spirits. They were even stopped on more than one occasion with people thinking that one of the men was a long dead relative. Some people thought that since they were white they were lightening come to the ground. The people could not understand who these …show more content…
When they were not shooting at the people the Leahy brothers treated the people kind. For the most part they treated them fair in their trading. They were also willing to teach new things to them. Christian cross-cultural interaction was hard to pick up for the simple reason that they were not going in to help the people. They were going just for themselves. There was a lot of Christian cross-cultural interactions that were violated. First and foremost, the brothers and their entourage was not going in to learn. They were going in just for themselves. They did not care about the people. If the people changed, it was for the better, but they were not specifically trying to change them. The brothers went in for themselves and only for themselves. Whatever interaction they had was all for selfish reasons. Because all interactions were selfish, Christian principles could not have been kept, because we are not supposed to be selfish. These people varied a lot from the Saints and Waodoni. The Saints went in to the people with love. They cared for them and wanted them to come to the knowledge of Christ. They were not going in there with selfish reasons, in fact the people mattered more than themselves. Having a Christian motive changes the attitude and the perspective, which in turn changes the actions. Christ makes the
It is a beautiful day in the area modernly known as southern Mississippi. The birds are chirping, the plants are growing, and the sun is shining. The day starts off like any other in this Native American community. The women began to tend the fields and the men are preparing for the next hunt. Suddenly, many strange figures appear at the entrance of the village. These figures appear to be men but these men are far different from any Native Americans they have seen. In the beginning, these men appear to be friendly and even exchange gifts with the local groups. Not for long these relationships began to change these white men began to disrespect the local chiefs and began to dominate the lands. Interaction of this kind was common along the Native Americans and the European settlers, however, it is not exact with every Native American group.
"’Except the bad thing is, the real humdinger, see, is that I tried for CO status, being a Christian and all. And weird things happened. And…well…I didn’t get it." Page 358
In January 1889, a Paiute Indian from Nevada named Wovoka, who was a shepherd, became terribly sick during a solar eclipse on New Year's Day and had divine visions of the Indian’s lands returned to them and all the American settlers disappearing. Soon, his teachings of prayers and special dances spread to all the plains tribes. In the article Ghost Dance found on Elibrary, an online educational database, the unlisted author writes that, “Wovoka had a vision that the old ways would be restored, the buffalo herds would return, white people would disappear, and the Indians would be reunited with friends and relatives in the ghos...
No one likes to be told how to live. In the book Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, missionaries came to Africa to teach the natives a new way of life, Christianity. The natives had lived one way their entire life, and enacted their beliefs whole-heartedly. European missionaries wanted to convert them from these ways. Each group of people had a difficulties communicating with each other; this caused a type of ignorance towards the other. Joseph Conrad did an adequate job portraying the views of Europeans in his novel Heart of Darkness and why they felt they needed to be in Africa. The traditions and beliefs in these two novels caused a major separation between the natives and whites; could this have caused more damage than good?
After the war, many people believed that the brothers were cruel to Union Soldiers, while others argued that it was brutal treatment that turned the brothers into criminals. The brothers started a career in robbing stagecoaches, banks, and even trains that were owned or operated by the northern company.
Among the rumors was the idea that the natives were connected to the devil. People believed that the Indians were Satan-worshippers, and that not only were...
The Christians were very disrespectful and inconsiderate of the Ibo, eventually causing the Ibo to retaliate angrily. After so many instances of the Christians disrespecting the Ibo religion and having no regard for their customs, the Ibo decide to serve an ultimatum. In spite of being given another chance, the missionaries still decide to remain in the Ibo village, therefore the Ibo burn down their church because they believed it brought evil to the area. Naturally the missionaries interpret their actions as savagery instead of a method of protecting the tribe and they base their judgements of the Ibo solely on their personal views, instead of looking at the situation from all perspectives. The Christian justice system is almost the exact opposite of the Ibo justice system, the Christians did not appeal to the Ibo at all, and only benefits the more preferred
Just like the Protestant ethic these people felt they had a calling to serve God and ha...
But there were some people who still cared for the well being of others. For example, Tom was eating with a father and son at the government camp, they talked about the guy they worked for and how he was a “nice frien’ly fella to work for”. This man allowed Tom to work in the ditch and even informed him of important information about the deputies, even though it could have risked his farm. Another example is when a local man with 20 acres of cotton asked the Joads to help him pick his cotton. This man was fair because he didn’t rig any of the scales and payed them 90 cents a
Throughout the book, the Chippewa Indians are caught in conflicts with the “whites”. They attempt to convert their religion to Christianity,
The architectural details of the Indian dwellings, their methods of hunting and food procurement, the way they used absolute cooperation and trust of each other as a weapon against the deadly climate - these are all made clear in the movie. It also becomes clear that the Indians had their own religious and belief systems already in place, and that none of them had much use for Jesus and the other gifts of Christianity. The most pathetic character in the movie is a "converted" Indian, whose crucifix around his neck represents not a leap of faith, but an accommodation of convenience with those who could give him what he wanted.
A documentary usually captures the truth on camera. Louis and Auguste Lumiere projected the first film for a paying audience in March 1895 called Workers leaving the factory. Then later on the brothers screened ten films. Their films showed events in their everyday life and of their children.
"The Ojibways affirm that long before they became aware of the white man's presence on
Soon after the missionaries began to teach the tribal people about the Christian faith, their tribal customs began to be questioned. This caused a sense of unrest in the village. The missionaries were trying to bring with them new ways of life, and mostly better ways of life. Mr.Achebe tries to show us that the missionaries showed people who were hurt by the beliefs of the tribe that this did not have to go on in their religion. This is one of the main reason people switched to their religion.
Different mission schools established and the primary goal was to these people to the Christian faith brought to repentance and to teach the children to read and write . Their approach was as the children could read and write , they could read the Bible and understand it better . This Christian -based education they received was mostly in English and has enabled them to live in peace and to act together with respect and have generally a better way of life among these people reflect .